danquayle wrote:U Wash higher than WUSTL isn't really that crazy. The midwest legal market is both saturated and still suffering from the recession, while U Washington has home school advantage in a city with one of the strongest economies in the country. I mean who is UW really competing with outside of the California schools and the occassionally T14 drifter?

US News doesn't really measure any of that stuff anything in a meaningful way.

This seems to be closer to the truth. Quite the racket they have going.

Eh, they get the tiers alright, but at this point everyone roughly knows those anyway. If anything, they should just put out rankings less frequently than yearly. Maybe every 5 years to capture any dramatic shifts. Like I'm sure we'll have a greater appreciation of the Illinois scandal fallout, if any, in 5 years.

That employment number is low because the people that go to Yale often go on to do other degrees seemingly more often than the other top schools. People pursuing another degree do not count as employed.

well the only job info that actually matters is irrelevant in the USNWR rankings, so their advantage is lost. Their medians are low too, so they have a major uphill battle regardless of how they do in NLJ 250 placement